Latch.



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LATCH.

(Application filed Jam 14, 1901 (lo llodel.)

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JACOB BIEHL, OF SEYMOUR, INDIANA.

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bJPEGZFI-ZATZQN forming GI" Letters Patent IIO. 677,432, dated. July 2,1901.

Application filed January 14,1901. Serial No. 43,213. No model.)

' which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in latches.

The object of the present invention is to improve the constructionof'latehes, and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient oneadapted to be employed on a door or gate and capable of performing thefunction of an ordinary pivoted latch and of enabling the gate or doorto be fastened by a padlock.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a latch constructedin accordance with this invention and shown applied to a gate. Fig. 2 isan elevation of the latch, the pivoted plate or member being shownraised in dotted lines for releasing the hasp. Fig. is a detail viewillustrating the manner of mounting the pivoted plate or member.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

1 designates a hasp secured at its inner end to a gate 2 by a staple 3,which passes through a perforation 4 of the hasp, and the latter, whichis preferably rolled at its outer end 5, as clearly shown in Fig. l, isreceived within a keeper 6 when the gate is closed. The keeper 6 iscomposed of a back 7 and a front 8, connected at its lower portion withthe back and offset at its upper portion from the same to provide aspace for the hasp, which is adapted to be raised and lowered todisengage it from and place it in the keeper. The keeper is providedwith a pivoted plate or member 9, located above the front 8 and adaptedto confine the hasp, and the said front, which is rigid with the back,is provided at its upper end with an outwardly-extending lip 10,arranged at an inclination, as

clearly illustrated in Fig. 2, and arranged to receive a correspondinglip or flange 11 of the pivoted plate or member 9 and capable oflimiting the swing of the same. The lip or flange 10, which forms a stopfor the pivoted plate or member, is provided with a perforation 12,adapted to register with a corresponding perforation 13 of the pivotedplate or member, to enable the latter to be fastened in the positionillustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings by passing the shackle 1a of apadlock 15 through the said perforations. The plate or member 9 isconnected at its upper end with the back 7 by a pivot 16, and the saidback extends a considerable distance above the front of the hasp. Thepivoted plate or member has its lower portion offset from the back ofthe keeper to arrange it in the same plane as the upper portion of thefront 8. The lip or flange 11 is arranged at an angle or set at aninclination to fit squarely against the lip or flange 10 of the front 8when the pivoted plate or member is in a vertical position.

The pivoted plate or member will remain by gravity in the positionillustrated in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, and it isadapted to be readily swung upward to release the hasp, which is adaptedto be readily raised and lowered to engage it with and disengage it fromthe keeper, and the said hasp is adapted to perform the functions of anordinary latch. When it is desired to look the gate, the shackle of thepadlock is engaged with the lips or flanges of the pivoted plate ormember and the keeper, and when the parts are looked, as shown in Fig.1, the hasp is securely confined and cannot become accidentallydisengaged from the keeper.

It will be seen that the device is exceedingly simple and inexpensive inconstruction, that it is adapted to be readily applied to gates, doors,and the like, and thatit is adapted also to perform the functions of anordinary latch and at the same time enable the door or gate to befastened bya padlock. It will also be apparent that the movable plate ormember is adapted to positively confine the hasp in the keeper, and itis capable when a padlock is not used of preventing a horse or otheranimal from unlocking a stable door or gate provided with thepresentinvention.

What I claim is 1. Adevice of the class described comprising a verticalkeeper composed of a front and a back spaced apart to provide a recessor opening, a hasp arranged in the recess or opening and adapted to beraised and lowered, a vertically-disposed plate or member located abovethe front of the keeper and adapted to be moved laterally of the keeperto and from the front to confine and release the hasp, and a padlockdetachably engaging the movable plate or member and the front of thekeeper, substantially as described.

2. A device of the class described comprising a vertical keeper havingafront and back and provided at its front witha'projecting lip or flangeset at an angle to forrn a stop,

' and a pivoted plate or member mounted above angle and adapted to abutagainst the said lip or flange, said lips or flanges being arranged tobe engaged by a padlock, substantially as described.

3. A device of the class described comprising a hasp, a keeper havingafront and back and provided at its front with an outwardlyextending lipor flange havinga perforation, said keeper receiving the hasp betweenits front and back, and a pivoted plate or member mounted above thefront of the keeper and having a projecting lip or flange provided withan opening adapted to register with that of the flange of the keeper toreceive the shackle of the padlock, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB BIEHL.

X'Vitn esses:

JOHN L. VOGEL, J. H. KAMMAN.

